Another useful search facility is http://www.rseek.org
The nice thing is that it categorizes results by help-list items, R function etc. It might be closer to what you are looking for. -Christos Christos Hatzis, Ph.D. Nuvera Biosciences, Inc. 400 West Cummings Park Suite 5350 Woburn, MA 01801 Tel: 781-938-3830 www.nuverabio.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 10:01 AM > To: John Sorkin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] Packages - a great resource, but hard to > find the right one. > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, John Sorkin wrote: > > > Gabor, > > > The URL you cited is helpful, but it is not searchable. It > can not be > > used, for example, to easily determine that MASS can be used for > > boxcox tranforms. > > It is searchable (use your browser's search facilities), and > that is often helpful. But you can do your search at > search.r-project.org (thanks to Jonathan Baron): select > 'Complete list of all packages', select a package and browse its help. > > If you are looking for a way to do Box-Cox, or the function > boxcox(), search on that site, or for packages you already > have installed, use help.search(). One reason we find it > useful to have a system with all packages installed (that do > install) is to make it easy for our users to search for what > they want, and then use it. > > See also http://www.r-project.org/search.html > > > John > > > > John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
